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Not mine, but:

Query: "max amps 22 awg"

AI Overview: "A 22 American Wire Gauge (AWG) copper wire can carry a maximum of 551 amps. Here are the fusing currents for some other AWG wire sizes..."

(A fusing current is the current that will instantly melt and possibly even vaporize a wire. The safe operating limit is two or three orders of magnitude lower.)

I mean it isn't technically wrong...

Sometimes you need to know how much current is guaranteed to vaporize a bit of wire - for example if you are designing a fusible link.

While this is true - it's the reason why fusing current was measured in the first place - it is not a reasonable way to answer a question asking for "max amps".

should have asked for the max safe amps

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